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Placencia Peninsula

Placencia

Placencia is a tourist village of about 1600 people at the southern tip of the resort Placencia peninsula in . It offers tourist bars, kayaking, snorkelling, diving, saltwater fly fishing, and whale shark watching.
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  • Type: Village with 4,300 residents
  • Description: town in Belize
  • Also known as: “Placencia Village”, “Placentia”, “Placentia Village”, “Plasencia”, “Point Placentia”, and “Punta Placencia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Placencia Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Nosferattus, CC0.
is an that serves Placencia, . It has a paved strip and crosses the peninsula from East to West. As of December 2012, the runway is paved in good condition.

Placencia

Latitude
16.5156° or 16° 30′ 56″ north
Longitude
-88.3672° or 88° 22′ 2″ west
Population
4,300
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
IATA airport code
PLJ
United Nations Location Code
BZ PLJ
Open location code
768HGJ8M+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2789784062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3581447
Wiki­data ID
Q2097877
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Placencia” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Placencia (Belize)”
  • Basque: “Placencia”
  • Cebuano: “Placencia”
  • Dutch: “Placencia”
  • French: “Placencia”
  • German: “Placencia”
  • Hebrew: “פלאסנסיה”
  • Irish: “Placencia”
  • Italian: “Placencia”
  • Japanese: “プラセンシア (ベリーズ)”
  • Japanese: “プラセンシア”
  • Low German: “Placencia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Placencia”
  • Norwegian: “Placencia”
  • Polish: “Placencia”
  • Portuguese: “Placencia”
  • Russian: “Пласенсия (город, Белиз)”
  • Russian: “Пласенсия”
  • Spanish: “Placencia”
  • Swedish: “Placencia”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Placencia”. Photo: nagy, CC BY-SA 2.0.